Candle-holder.



No. 64|,239- Pafented Jan. 9, |900. H. SCHROEDER.

CANDLE HOLDER.

Application filed Feb. 21. 1999.;

(No Model.)

@mi-hm ewa-A TATES- IIUGO SOHROEDER, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO R. J. DANSON AND WILLIAM A. HUNEKE, OF SAME PLACE.

CANDLE-HOLDER..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,239, dated January 9, 1900. Application tiled February 21 1899. p Serial No. '706 ,4:30. (No model.)

T0 al?, whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, I-IUGO SOHROEDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented a new and useful Candlestick or Candle-Holder, which I have entitled Alki Candle-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the Candlestick or candle-holder used chiefly by miners, brewers, and` other underground workers, though it may conveniently be used by any one and in any place. Miners, brewers, and other underground workers requiring light are obliged to change the position of their light frequently and are generally unable to find a convenient place to put it. Thus they must stick the holder into a timber, or place it on a projecting rock, or hang it on a nail, or insert it in a crevice, or fasten it to their caps. It is very rare that the candleholder is in such a position that the candle is perpendicular, and being out of perpendicular it melts and drips away and is lost. Miners each use from seven to ten candles in this wayduringashift. Adesideratuinwiththese men therefore is a candle-holder which can readily be placed in any of these positions and 'which will hold the candle perpendicularly in all of them. Myinvention accomplishes this. It can readily be attached to almost any object, whatever its shape, and adjusted so that the candle will always be perpendicular. A saving of two or three candles for each miner during a shift is thus effected.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention, in which- Figure l is a front view of the holder. 2 is a vertical section of the holder. Fig. 3 is a top view of the holder. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the point and hook, and Fig. 5 is a view of the candle-clamp.

The saine letters refer to the same parts in all the figures.

The entire holder is constructed of metal, preferably iron er steel, and can be of any size wanted, though for general use and for the ordinary tallow candle the size shown in the drawings is about right.

The plate A A A is one piece of thin soft metal cut or stamped approximately as indi-a Fig.

cated. It may be left a plane surface, but is preferably slightly bent so as'to be convex on one side and concave on the other, as shown in the drawings.

K is a circular hole about one-fourth of an inch in diameter cut or stamped through A and will be referred to later.

B B B Bin the drawings are different views of the candle-clamp. It consists of a sheet of very thin metal having resiliency, preferably spring-steel, about one inch wide and five inches long, cut, as shown in the drawings, and then bent round upon adiameter of about three-fourths of an inch--the thickness of the ordinary tallow-candle. The clamp being resilient will permit an increase of its diameter by pressing upon the projecting ends. B B B B is very securely fastened, preferably riveted or welded, to one member of the tight-fitting knuckle-joint L E, the other member of which passes through the hole K by means of a projection F, which fits snugly. F, G, and H are one piece of metal, F fitting snugly in K, G having a smaller diameter and ending in H, forming a tight-iittin g swivel, which holds the spike D and hook O. This knuckle-joint L E permits the candle-clamp B to describe an arc of one hundred and eighty degrees, and the swivel G II permits B to describe a circle in a plane at right angles with the plane ofthis arc, so that in any position it will hold the candle perpendicular.

The screw .I is so cut that C, the hook,which is held thereby when in the position shown in Fig. 2, will be tight. For folding purposes, though, O may be turned a quarter-turn to the left, when it will rest against the plate A, as shown by the dotted line in Fig. 3. The point or spike D is an iron or steel spike tapered to a point. The hook O is also of metal and tapered to a point. C and D are joined by means of a tight-fitting knuckle-joint I and the screw J within the end of I. By means of the swivel G H the hook C and the attaching prong or spike D may also describe a circle, and by means of the knuckle-joint I the point D may describe an arc of one hundred and eighty degrees in a plane at Yright angles with the plane of the circle. The point D is of metal, preferably iron or steel, and is tapered to a sharp point.

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A and the point D or the hook C, or any part of the holder maybe thrust into-a crevice securely, and in all of these positions the candle-clamp B can quickly and easily be made perpendicular by aid of the other knucklejoint when necessary.

l am aware that there are candle-holders now in use which have pivoted spike, pivoted hook, and pivoted candle-socket; but these parts move in practically parallel planes, While in myinvention the swivel-joint uniting the candle-clamp on one side of the platewith the spike and hook on the other side permits a circle to be described by these parts at right angles to the arc of one hundred and eighty degrees described by the two knuckle-joints. I do not claim an invention upon the .point or the hook or the clamp as such therefor, since they are now used on candle-holders; but

What l do claim as rnyinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a candle-holder a supporting-plate, a

socket-support swiveled to said plate, a socket for the reception of a candle `having resilient Walls hinged to said support the said swivel and hinge forming friction-joints and means for securing said supporting-plate in operative position, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. Ina candle-holder in combination a supporting-plate, a vhook frictionally swiveledthereon and an attaching prong or spike hinged to the lower extremity of the shaft of the hook, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a candle-holder` in combination a supporting-plate, a socket-support swiveled to said plate for the reception of a candle having resilient Walls, `frictionally hinged to said support, a hook frictionally swiveled thereon and an attaching prong or spike frictionally hinged to the lower extremity of the shaft of the hook, as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In a candle-holder in combination a supporting-plate, a socket for the reception of the candle, a socket-support having a joint and an attaching prong or spike having a hinge, as and for the purposes set forth.

HUGO SCHROEDER. Witnesses:

WM. A. HUNEKE, R. J. DANsoN. 

